I'm surprised how much I enjoyed this series. Quick paced and enough twists and turns to keep me up late reading.

Rylie has been a werewolf for a year and is desperately trying to reconcile himself with the people she killed in the last book. It isn’t going well, while Adam and the other werewolves are roaming and learning control, she is desperately trying tom isolate herself… and she has a silver bullet ready.

But the mountain where it all began is calling her – and not just her, but all the werewolves in the world are being drawn back to the source. And were werewolves gather in such numbers, so too do hunters.

I have to say I am a little disappointed, in the end, by how Rylie became the superior Alpha which I’ve seen in other series of books set in this world. I expected her to do some thing or learn something or achieve something – I expected her to earn it in some epic, awesome moment. To have it be bestowed divinely without me seeing particularly why felt like something of a cop out. I expected this series of books to continue to show her growth as she went from ordinary teenaged girl to confused werewolf and eventually to something even more – and I feel it didn’t quite reach that potential.

Not that Rylie didn’t grow and change, in fact her progression through the book is pretty excellent. She begins fully reeling from the deaths of the last book. She is consumed by guilt, suicidal and generally not entirely sure she shouldn’t die – or that all werewolves shouldn’t die for that matter. It’s one of the interesting conflicts of this series – while it’s nice to think werewolves are being persecuted and attacked by the big mean hunters the fact remains that they are out of control when they change, the can’t control their changes and they do kill people. Rylie herself has killed people, innocent people.

But we see her concern grow for her fellow werewolves far more so than for herself as she struggles to reconcile with her actions. Concern for the other werewolves also drawn to the mountain, worry about them being hunted. I love how she finds the value of werewolves through her worry for others, through seeing them as people being hunted and people to save even if she can’t see herself that way. And I know that there’s a whole lot pure martyrdom in the genre, especially with women, but working with her the guilt and pain means that this is far more developed than how we normally see the trope

This is also why I was a little disappointed by the whole superior Alpha thing – because I could see where Rylie was going, her concern for others, her willingness to bring the werewolves together – she was heading towards alphaness. She was getting there – she just seemed to reach her destination before actually, well, reaching there.

The hunters bring their own nuance – they, and the union, are not generally evil vicious hunters. They are legitimately trying to protect people from rampaging monsters and the werewolves definitely are rampaging monsters, albeit not by choice or design and even though they wish it were otherwise.

Until we reach Eleanor. I really think with all this nuance and levels and truly complicated conflict that she stands out as outright cartoonish in her evil. She is the irredeemable, empty caricature of evil. It certainly cuts through all the levels and gives us an evil, go-to antagonist but I’m not really sure if it was remotely necessary. It took something from the narrative to decide to cut through all these layers with Evil Eleanor who may as well have drowned some puppies and grown a moustache for her to twirl.

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In book 4 , and the last book, of the "Seasons Of The Moon" series, Rylie and Abel are at the Ranch that is being used to safely house the werewolfs. Bekah and levi from book 3 are there also along with others. Although now safe Rylie is not happy. She misses her Aunt Gwyn and her ranch and most of all she misses Seth, Abel's brother and her boyfriend who had stayed with Gwyn to help her, finish school and hopefully go to college and become a doctor. Also she is having dreams about Gray Mountain, the place she was changed into a werewolf.

Things change when Bekah disappears and drawings are found showing Gray mountain and it is found that others are having the same dream. While the others are discussing what to do Rylie and Abel take off to find her and also try to find out what the dreams mean. Along the way they will find other werewolfs also going to the mountain. Also we see the way that the relationship between Rylie and Abel has changed from Able hating to her to one of mutual respect and maybe even friendship. Also we will meet many enemies, especially one that hates Rylie above all else.

Although I really liked the story I only gave it 4 stars (wish I could have given it 4.5) because of the way the story ended. It was just a little too neat and seemed to be there just to end the series. One good point is that although the series has ended, Ms Reine has left it at a point that if she wishes, she can write more about these characters. ( )